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Recipes for inks : manuscript
Title
Recipes for inks : manuscript.
Production
Great Britain, circa [1820?]
Physical Description
1 volume (16 pages) ; 20 x 13 cm
Language
English
Summary
Manuscript of 17 recipes related to making ink and writing letters. Each recipe is preceded by a short heading in a different hand.
Format
Archives or Manuscripts
Added to Catalog
July 26, 2021
Contents
Another receipt for writing ink
To make ink powder
To prepare red ink
Yellow ink
To make letters, or other characters of a gold or silver colour
To make letters of gold or silver embossed
A rare secret to prepare gold the ancient way, to paint or write with
To write golden letters with a pen
Fine red ink of vermilion
An artificial water for writing letter of secrecy
To silver all sorts of metals
To gild paper
To make Indian ink
Another method
To prepare blue ink
To make good writing ink
For a small quantity of writing ink.
Genre/Form
Formulas (instructions)
Recipes.
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